Azim Premji Quotes
The job of nation building, the job of nation leadership in a difficult, complex coalition has worked.
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I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.
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Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.
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To me, it's always been a challenge to look for the light: to look for those spaces in your heart where there is hope and faith and try to embrace that rather than crush it. I've spent so many years trying to crush those feelings of hope, and I certainly succeeded for quite a while.
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I don't think it is worth trying to look 10 years younger through surgery.
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The job of nation building, the job of nation leadership in a difficult, complex coalition has worked.
